SIMBIoTA - antivírus megoldást fejlesztett a CrySyS Lab IoT eszközök számára

Embedded devices connected to the Internet are threatened by malware, but no anti-virus product is available for them. Anti-virus products developed for traditional IT systems have higher resource needs than that offered by embedded IoT devices. The required amount of free storage space and memory to run these products is often measured in gigabytes, which exceeds the capacity of typical IoT devices, such as WiFi routers, IP cameras, smart house hold appliances, wearable devices, etc. In addition, many existing anti-virus products do not even support the operating systems (typically some embedded Linux or some more exotic OS) used on IoT devices. Therefore, they could not be installed, even if a particular IoT device met their system requirements.

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Hence, there is a need for an anti-virus solution running on the IoT devices themselves, and CrySyS Lab researchers developed the first ever such anti-virus solution called SIMBIoTA. The approach proposed by Csongor Tamás (now with Ukatemi Technologies), Dorottya Papp, and Levente Buttyán relies on similarity-based malware detection, and it has a number of notable advantages: moderate storage requirements on resource constrained IoT devices, a fast and lightweight malware detection process, and a surprisingly good detection performance, even for new, never-before-seen malware. These features make SIMBIoTA a viable anti-virus solution for IoT devices, with competitive detection performance and limited resource requirements.

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